Bug#575192: [check/nmu] lintian do not understand changelog with several authors

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> writes:

> tags 575192 + patch
> kthxbye

> I believe this check should only be done on action lines - And given
> that bracketed lines are now widely used for multi-maintainer entries,
> `$firstline' should match only action lines, thus this simple patch:

I fixed this in Git by recognizing the multi-author syntax directly, but I
think you're right and this is better, since it would also skip the tag
lines at the top of a release (not that I would expect an NMU to have one,
but still).

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>